Follow Me Widget Edit?

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  horseglam · Member · Aug 15, 2017 at 1:16 am

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  I have a Follow Blog widget on my sidebar. I have edited what the buttons say, but how do you edit the emails that the “followers”? I can’t find this in the settings

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Aug 15, 2017 at 2:04 am

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  Hi there,

  I’m not clear about what it is that you want to do.

  re: wordpress.com blog subscriptions

  All that’s required to follow any blog hosted by wordpress.COM is exactly what you were required to provide to register here, and that is a valid email address that the published posts can be sent to.

  Here subscribers control their own subscriptions and frequency of receipt of posts from sites they subscribe to. We cannot act on their behalf. More to the point is the fact that when email addresses are submitted for the purpose of receiving blog updates that is the only purpose they can be used for.

  You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widget by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  Widgets can be configured to appear only on certain pages (or be hidden on certain pages) by clicking on the Visibility button.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility

  We have a blog subscription shortcode which you can make use of. The help page on it is right here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/ You can also include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.

  The mailchimp and aweber pop-up subscription code provided by those source sites will not operate on WordPress.COM hosted sites. Staff have recently added the mailchimp widget for subscriptions and here is the link to the guide you must use https://en.support.wordpress.com/mailchimp

  Read more at https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=following

  Your wordpress.com subscribers are found here https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers

  You can also use: https://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=stats

  *replace NAME_OF_BLOG in that URL with the actual name of your site.

  Note that the title there includes Publicize followers from social networks. https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/

  Your email only subscribers are here https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=email

  Note that many of us keep our personal email addresses off the web as they are for family and friend use only. Instead, we register throwaway email addresses that do not personally identify us and use them for blogging purposes.